Your Body Is Responding to This, and You Don't Know It

It's about your ability to choose and implement what happens inside of your body in the presence of the extremes in the world around us. We're living in a time of extremes. That is no secret. I think we all know that. You know, a lot of people ask me why the world appears as it does today. And I have dedicated entire courses to sharing the answer to that from a scientific perspective. But if you've never seen those courses, let me just say this to you right now. We are in fact living a rare and precious moment in the history of our planet, in the history of our civilization, in the history of your nation, in the history of my nation. We're living a convergence of natural cycles that are coming together in the same period in time in a way that you and I have never seen because it hasn't happened in 5,000 years of recorded human history. Some of the cycles you know about and you hear about all the time, some you may not be so familiar with. So, let me just just briefly say the climate cycle certainly is one of those natural cycles. We are living a natural rhythm of climate that's changing our world. We are also contributing to that through industry and technology. Uh and we're working to change that. He and I were invited to speak at the UN together about these converging cycles and how we can prepare ourselves for these cycles. When I mentioned to the United Nations audience that we're living a cycle of human conflict, they were surprised and they said, ' Doesn't conflict just happen? And I said, "No, it actually follows rhythms that are tied to forces, the magnetic fields of the earth, the solar cycles of the sun that change the way that we think and feel." And the bottom line is this. When the magnetic fields of the earth and the sun are weak, we are more aggressive. We're less willing to cooperate to solve our problems. And when those magnetic fields are reversed, then the parameters are reversed. The stronger the magnetic fields, the more willing we are to work together to cooperate and solve our problems. So any one of those cycles would be enough to change the way we live. All three of them are converging now. So when I say to you, we're living a time of extremes. Now you know what those extremes are really all about. For more information on those, please go to my website. You can see entire seminars based upon these cycles. But it sets the stage for where you and I are right now with the wisdom codes, the word codes that we're using that help us to change the way we respond to what's happening in our lives and in our world. If you place your sense of well-being on that world out there, it can be very confusing. So this is why I say to you, the better you know yourself, the less you rely on the outer world for balance, the less you rely on the outer world for your sense of well-being, the healthier you're going to be, the happier you're going to be, the better you can serve your family, the better you can serve your community, and perhaps most importantly, the greater the mastery that you will have created for yourself. So this is important and I think this is really important for all of us because as I said this is no ordinary time in in history. So as we begin to think about what the changes mean in our lives. We know we can't stop the change and sometimes we wouldn't want to. As I mentioned there's a lot of really good changes happening in the world as well. But determining how we respond this is this is what's up for all of us right now. 1991, there was the discovery of about 40,000 specialized cells in the human heart. Now, they'd always been there, obviously. They were simply recognized in 1991. They're called sensory neurites. They're essentially brainike cells, but they're not in the brain. They're in the heart. and they function in the heart very similar to the way that these neurons function in the brain itself. Now on your screen, what you're seeing right now, two things. I want you to see on the right hand side of your screen, you're actually looking at the neurons. This is what they look like. And and I put these here because I want you to see that this is real. This isn't a metaphor. It's not makebelieve. It's not, you know, new thought thinking. This is rocksolid science that simply is not being shared in the mainstream. You're not going to see this in mainstream classrooms, textbooks, mainstream documentaries because it takes time for the discoveries to trickle down into the mainstream. Yet, we can use these discoveries right now in our lives for the reasons that we're talking about now, to help empower us. The better you know yourself, the better equipped you are to deal with change in your life. And this this is a key component of empowering yourself in the change. Now on the left side of your screen is a schematic diagram of the human heart. And if you look closely, all those little light dots that you see, the light colored dots, those are the sensory murites. Look at where they're located. They're located all around the places where the blood enters into the heart and where the blood leaves the heart. your neurons are going to shut down or open up the blood flow to your heart. It's shocking news. It will actually constrict some of that blood flow into the brain and you'll feel that lightaded feeling. And this is the reason. It's also the reason that you can learn to regulate how you respond to that kind of information. So, I want you to see these neurons. Look at where they're located. And this is why it's so powerful. Now, I'm really excited. The image that you're looking at right now beyond a schematic, this is the first three-dimensional map of the heart's nervous system. So, you're actually looking at at the image of the human heart. And if you look towards the top, the yellow, all the little yellow that I'm highlighting for you right now, those little yellow areas, those are where the sensory neurites are primarily located. It's the first time we've been able to map these uh physically in the living human heart. It's exciting. And once again, just like I shared with you in the neurons in module number one, so you could know how real they are, I'm sharing this with you now because we're going to begin accessing those neurons. And when we do, I want you to know that you're accessing a part of yourself that is unique to the human being. No other form of life can access consciously at will on demand the neurons in the way that you and I are about to do to selfregulate your biology. It's very powerful frequency 0.1 hertz is the frequency that whales communicate with in the oceans because it is such a universal frequency. Now I want you to know why this is such a powerful frequency and I am really happy to talk to you about this because my primary degree is as an earth scientist geoysics I love to talk about the earth about our planet 0.1 hertz gives me the opportunity to do that what you're looking at on your screen right now this is a cross-section of our beautiful planet and you're seeing in the cross-section the magnetic fields that surround and protect us. Now, this is an artist's conception. The next image you see, this one here, is actually a NASA image from a satellite in space looking back on the planet. So, Earth is the ball, obviously, the dark ball in the center. And the magnetic fields, the multiple layered magnetic fields are surrounding our planet. But if you look closely, what you're seeing on the left hand side of the screen, you're seeing that those magnetic fields are deformed. They're flattened. And the reason is because the sun, the energy from the sun is coming from the left hand side of your screen, 93 million miles across space. The energy from the sun, the solar wind, the plasma, it's pushing against those magnetic fields. It's deforming those magnetic fields as they protect us and our planet. It is also doing something else. If you look closely, there's not one field. There are many, many different fields within the field. You can think of these fields as the strings on a musical instrument. I'm a musician, so I'm a guitar player. So, I think of this in terms of guitar. So if you look closely, what you're seeing is those magnetic lines are in motion because the energy from the sun is touching them. So I'm going to invite you to think of it like this. Think about the energy from the sun plucking each of those those strings of the magnetic field. And when it plucks them, it makes a sound. And I have that sound for you. I want to share this with you because we now have the ability to listen to what the magnetic fields of our planet or any planet sound like. It may surprise you. A lot of people when they think about the magnetic fields, they [snorts] think it's going to be like this angelic uh very high-pitch soft sound. That's not what this is. It is a deep, resonant, intense sound. I want to play this for you because I want you to listen. It is sounds within sounds, harmonics that are happening. And then we'll talk about that in just uh just a little bit. So the next image, this is this is what this sound actually sounds like. I want you to hear this. And I'm going to bring it up for you gradually. I want you to listen close to these sounds. You can hear the harmonics in one sound inside of another. Pretty amazing, huh? >> [music] >> What the Buddhists tell us is that we live in a world where everything is impermanent. Nothing lasts forever. And in the presence of that impermanence, it promises that we will all have many, many losses throughout our lives on many, many different levels. Now, what do those losses mean to our bodies? I mentioned a little bit earlier in another module about the fact that every emotion that we have creates a chemical in our bodies. I want to talk a little bit more about that right now and how we know that and where that comes from. The first scientific documentation that we have regarding this relationship between human emotion, the chemistry in our bodies was a landmark book, powerful book written by Dr. Candace Per. It was called Molecules of Emotion. On a personal level, I had the privilege and the honor of knowing Candace Bert before she passed, before she left this world, because we shared the same publisher and at some of those publisher conferences, we would have the opportunity to have meals together at night, sitting at the same table talking about her discovery and what it means to have a chemical component to every emotion that we will ever experience in our lives. When we have an emotional experience without the ability to reconcile that experience, what that means is when we have the emotion and we contract, we constrict, we lock it down in our bodies, that chemical cannot metabolize. It can't move. And so what we will do is we are so skillful at this is we will store that chemical in the body. We will store that chemical in the organ or the tissue or the body system that we associate with the trauma. We'll store that chemical in our hearts or in our lungs or when people have issues of of not being able to have children sometimes for example. These are very well documented [snorts] where the the the couple that cannot have the children will have a feeling of inadequacy around not being able to conceive. And and that creates a chemical that they will store in the organs associated with conception. And it's the body's way of saying, "Hey, I'm going to keep this chemical here for you because you can't deal with it right now. And I'll keep it for you here until you have the tools when you can deal with it. So what I'd like to do is approach this now from a Buddhist perspective because the only way to heal from a loss once a loss happens we cannot unlose. So once it's there we have it and the only way out of it is to go through it. And the purpose of this module is to help you go through that loss in a healthy way. This is the thing to feel. The only way to do this is to allow yourself to feel in the presence of the loss. Not to discount it, not to sweep it under the carpet, not to anesthetize it as as many people do because that's the only way that they know how to deal with it. When we are in loss, we hurt and we want to stop hurting. And of course, that's very natural. This is a healthy way to transcend that loss. So I discovered this from myself uh in a series of journeys that I had back in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Late 1990s and early 2000s I was privileged to lead tours into the highlands of central China into what is called the Tibetan plateau. And over the course of 26 days, we would experience the the monks and the nuns in 12 monasteries and two nunneries at elevations just under 18,000 ft above sea level. Again, this is some of the most magnificent and beautiful and isolated and pristine uh places remaining on the earth today. Tibetan monks all chanting at the same time. And that that chant isn't something that you just hear. It literally reverberates through your body. I could feel the vibration of the deep tantric chants inside my body. And that set the tone for the conversation. And what the monks said to me was that it is in the presence of our hurt. When we lose something that we cherish in our lives, the depth of our hurt teaches us of our capacity to love. I invite you to think about that. The depth of our hurt teaches us our capacity to love. Because each hurt that we experience, the deeper the hurt, the deeper we have to reach inside of ourselves to find the love to rise above that hurt. So when we lose a job, for example, that can hurt. It can be very disappointing. It could be frustrating. And we we find a way to transcend that. But that's a very different kind of loss than losing a child. The most insufferable hurts that you can ever imagine. The deepest hurts, losing a child or a loved one. got to reach even deeper to find a way to transcend what that hurt is or to find a level of forgiveness from whatever it is that took from us what it is that we cherish. This is releasing the ego self in exchange for a greater allinclusive self. One of the ways that we do that is through the technique that we're going to to use today. It's in this expanded identity of this more mindful state uh we realize that we're separate uh we think that we're separate and we realize that we're part of rather than separate from the loss. So our wisdom code this particular wisdom code comes from a Buddhist nun and I wanted to share the perspective of a nun with you for a particular reason. The nun's name is Odaki Rangettu. You may be familiar with uh with her work. She wrote a book of poems that was called the moon. Uh she's a renowned Buddhist nun. I wanted to share this from her perspective because from a feminine perspective, there's a little twist in this Buddhist perspective. So, let me just share the wisdom code. This is our wisdom code. And she says, quote, "The impermanence of this floating world I feel over and over." Then she says, "It is hardest to be the one left behind because the world that we know at the end of 120 years is going to be very different than we knew early on. So this is where this this wisdom code is is so powerful. uh acknowledging the loss. It is a sense of mourning and this is what's happening to us all right now. I mentioned this uh in in our last module and I I referenced it briefly here. We live in the time of extremes. The world has changed. For many people, the change, the suffering from the change comes because they are clinging to an idea of what the world used to be, waiting for things to get back to normal, waiting for the world to return to what we've known in the past. And I'm not going to say it's right, wrong, good, or bad. I'm going to invite you to ask the question, if your psyche, if your emotions are filled with the images and the expectations of a world that used to be, where's the room for the new world that wants to emerge? Little things that I miss. And the same thing can be said of all loss in our lives, in our world. It is the acknowledging simply acknowledging the existence of the loss that begins to free the chemicals in our body so they can metabolize and allow us to move forward rather than being stuck in the loss. And this is what the second statement says from odaki ringettsu. It's it's the hardest to be left behind. So how do we use this wisdom code? We're going to do the same thing that we did in in the previous module. We're going to create the state of heartb brain coherence. And once again, the reason that we do this is to create an optimal state in all the systems of our body, including the chemical systems of our body. It is like a program on the computer. We're opening the door to this soft technology, this emotional program. And once we open that, we're going to drop in the code, in this case, the code of what it means to have this loss so that we can acknowledge that and allow it to free in our lives. When we create that heartbrain coherence, again, we're opening that clear channel to communicate directly with the subconscious mind. And it's from this place of of heartbrain harmony. I'm going to invite you to recite line by line. There are only two lines either silently in your mind or out loud until you feel a shift in your sense of loss and the peace that comes from the acceptance of that loss because that's what this code will allow us to have. And once again, the key is to embrace this code in the heart with a focus and awareness right in the heart. >> [music] >> Fear means different things to to different people. Sometimes our fears are very obvious. You know, if you wake up in the morning and you open your eyes and there's a big spider dangling on a web dropping down from the ceiling, that is an obvious source of fear. You know where it's coming from and you know, maybe you don't like spiders and it's easy to reconcile that. There are other kinds of fears that are less obvious. Sometimes we have a fear and we don't even know where it comes from. It's called unsourced fear. There is a source. It's just that we may not be consciously aware of what that source is. And I want to talk about those. But before we go any further, I want you to know that fear is a universal human experience. It's in every culture. It is in every ancient tradition. It is the source of many of the shamanic principles and the yogic principles that we find. Fear is one of six universal emotions that scientists have discovered are common to all cultures and all people and apparently have been so throughout all time. And every emotion has a chemical equivalent. Sometimes the emotions are conscious, sometimes the emotions are subconscious. So even though we may not be consciously aware of the fear, it can still subconsciously be occurring and triggering the chemical reaction in our body. So the wisdom code, this particular wisdom code is designed to trigger the shift in your perspective, the shift in thinking and the shift in feeling that frees those chemicals, the neuropeptides as a result of any fear so that it can move through your body. So once again, it doesn't change it doesn't change what has happened. It's changing the way that you and I feel about what's happening in our lives. Once again, this this is the highest form of mastery. We're the only form of life that has the ability to choose the way we respond to life at will, on demand. Other other forms of life, they will respond by instinct. uh other primates, gorillas, monkeys, chimpanzees, dogs, cats, other animals, they will respond certainly to their environment by instinct. We are the only form of life that can choose to respond in a healthy way, to transcend the experience that is leading us to to hurt ourselves or have suffering in in our lives. Now, we know that by doing that, we're actually freeing those chemicals from our bodies, recognizing that we don't disappear, that we don't lose ourselves, and in that we recognize there is something within us that is indestructible, something within us that cannot be destroyed. Our ancestors had the same experiences and they arrived at the same understandings and they learned to change to change the chemistry in their bodies in the same way. So I'm I'm going to share a couple of of wisdom codes. One of them is from the traditional Hindu traditions uh called the Vadic Upupanads and the other one is from uh the Hindu Bible typically known as the Mahabarata. There's a section a portion of the Mahabarata subset called the Bavad Gita that I know that many of you are are probably familiar with. So I want to begin with the Bavad Gita and if you are a student of the Bavad Gita this is from chapter 2 verse 20. It's a story and it's a really beautiful very powerful story about an epic battle that is described in the Bavad Gita where the great warrior his name is Arjuna. Arjuna is about to lead an army into uh into a great battle where he knows many many lives are going to be lost. Today in India it is uh called the plains of Kuruketra. Kuruketra. And what's so interesting about the story that I'm going to share with you is that archaeological evidence has recently uncovered the remnants of a great battle that occurred at exactly the place where the Mabar Mahabarata says this this battle occurred and where the Bavad Gita describes this. And so now the question is if the Bavagita was accurate about this battle and what happened here that has always been believed to be a fairy tale, always believed to been a metaphor. [snorts] What else is the Mahabarat accurate about? And there is the the topic for an entire course that we could do about the history of this uh this ancient civilization. So here's here's how this experience unfolds. Zarjuna is an archer, a great archer, and he is said to have a very special kind of a bow where with one one action he can release as many as 30,000 arrows all at the same time. So, he is a tremendous archer. He's on the edge of the battlefield contemplating the taking of all of these lives. And he begins to share this with his chariot driver. So he has a chariot driver guiding him into battle so that he can be the warrior in the battle is the atharva. It's made of over 760 hymns that describe different modalities of healing that were used during the time of their writings. A fascinating book if you get a chance to to check this out. The third of the vdic texts is the sama. It's a very specialized collection of 1549 hymns. uh and they are believed to originally come from the Rigveda. So it may be a subset of the Rigveda the fourth and the final Vadic test is a Yajure Va 1800 ancient mantras and that's where our wisdom code is going to come from. They're describing different religious uh religious traditions. So this wisdom code is actually found in the Yajer Va and it specifically addresses the uncertainty and the universal fear of annihilation. The sense that there's a part of us that will cease to exist. Now once again I'm not saying this is a conscious fear. Uh but before I go into this uh actual wisdom, I'm I'm just going to give you let me give you an example uh of how these universal fears work. I was in a grocery store aisle one evening shopping by myself late at night and there was a mother and uh a young boy, young baby boy. I I have no children of my own so I may not be very good at this, but I'm going to guess he was around two years of age. two years of age. He's sitting in the basket in the grocery store in the aisle with all the soup, all the cans of soup. And his mother disappeared just for a moment. She walked out of his sight around the corner and he couldn't see her. Now, when she did that, he began to scream at the top of his lungs. I mean, he screamed like someone was hurting him. And I looked up and said, "You know what's going on?" and all I saw that he was alone. Now, we've all seen this happen. But it's a be beautiful example of of a universal fear. Now, think about this. Why would a young child suddenly finding themselves alone not just look around and say, "Hey, I'm alone. I can explore all these cans of soup. You know, I can I can explore, you know, what's happening. What is it about being alone that is so terrifying to that young child?" And the answer to that is that this fear of of being alone, of being left alone is one of the universal fears that we all have of being alone. Another universal fear is this fear of being annihilated, of of not existing. And it shows up in a lot of different ways of not being listened to, of not being heard, of not being significant, of not being worthy. These all are examples of the outward expressions of this universal fear. So this wisdom code number three that I'm going to share with you right now comes from the upupananishads. It's called the kaupanachad. Uh it is if you're taking notes it comes from chapter 1 section 2:es 18- 20. It's going to sound very similar to what you heard in the Bavad Gita but there's a little bit different twist. So let me read it to you now. This is the uh the wisdom code. The soul is not born nor does it die. It did not spring from something and nothing sprang from it. It is unborn, eternal, immortal, and ageless. It is not destroyed when the body is destroyed." End of quote. Very, very similar to what we heard before with a little bit more detail. It's very, very clear that something within us is eternal no matter what happens to our bodies. And as we acknowledge that to the subconscious, the subconscious begins to let go of this unspoken fear of annihilation or the unspoken fear of uh of ceasing to exist, allowing the chemicals to pass through our bodies, the rashes to heal, the chronic conditions uh to to heal, and allowing us to move forward without the fear. In the absence of this fear, we are freed to love. And I'm going to talk about that more in a future module. But to be able to love fearlessly, to be able to surrender every aspect of our being to love and the trust and the vulnerability of being with another being to surrender the certainty of who we are in exchange for the possibility of being something greater with another person. What prevents us from doing it? It sounds like a beautiful kind of love. How how romantic. What prevents us from doing that is this this unspoken fear that something in us is going to get lost and we've got to hang on to it. So this is a very powerful code once again by acknowledging the fear by giving it voice by not denying it by not discounting it by not trying to sweep it under the carpet by not trying to anesthetize it by not trying to to do some you know new age high-tech thing to make it go away by allowing its existence in the presence of that existence we are freed to love. So this is the power of wisdom code number three. As always, it comes from repeating it to the affirmative, the positive to imprint this code on the subconscious mind. And we're going to once again create the heartb brain harmony. So we open that clear channel because your brain already knows this. You are connecting with your subconscious. That's who you want to know. That there's a part of you that is eternal. You're saying this to your subconscious. So for